‘We’ve not been to each other’s houses… He’s so OCD, he wouldn’t know what to do. He’d build it up in his mind for three days, and probably make himself quite sick, then he’d have an argument with his wife and not turn up.

‘If I went to his house, he would feel like he wasn’t in control.’

The pair have known each other for 26 years (Picture: BBC)

And it gets worse for all those #Jogg fans, after John revealed that when the pair are sent to far-flung and exotic places, they prefer to stay apart.

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He added: ‘If we go away to somewhere like South Africa, we do things separately.

‘If we do go out for a drink, I’ll invariably be at one end of a big old table and he’ll be at the other.